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Peter Melby and the trouble with good intentions
A surprise resignation changed how Peter Melby thought about being a boss. From an IT company started in an apartment to New Charter, he has been working out how trust survives growth.
Chris Barbin and the business of backing people
After co-founding Appirio and leading it to a $500 million acquisition agreement, Chris Barbin returned to the work he knew: helping people build services businesses. At Tercera, the next chapter runs through cloud ecosystems, old colleagues and the changing economics of AI.
Ben Spray and the expensive education of a company builder
A failed app at 18. A growing family of service businesses. Ben Spray’s career has become a running argument for knowing the work before building the software.
Gruve
Gruve is an outcome-based enterprise AI services company that helps large organizations move from AI strategy to production-grade deployment across customer experience, cybersecurity, data and platform engineering — billing on results rather than billable hours.
Turing
Turing is a $2.2 billion AGI infrastructure company that bridges the global talent gap in AI development. Founded in 2018 by Stanford AI alumni Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, Turing operates across two core missions: supplying frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with expert human talent for coding, STEM, and reasoning data; and building production-grade AI systems for Fortune 500 enterprises. With a network spanning 4 million developers across 140+ countries, a fine-tuning platform called ALAN, and $334 million raised in total funding, Turing has grown into one of the fastest-scaling companies at the intersection of talent and artificial intelligence.